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As tensions simmer between U.S. and Iran, Iraq is feeling the heat

Of the many proxy battlegrounds between Iran and the U.S., Iraq is one of the most overlooked, at least outside the Middle East. But U.S. reaction to the reappearance on the political scene of former Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki — a candidate for the job once more — is a sharp reminder of the tightrope Iraq walks between the two.
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Republicans, Democrats want to hear from government about anti-drone laser that closed El Paso airport

The brief shutdown of El Paso airport by the Federal Aviation Administration because of safety concerns posed by the use of a military laser-based anti-drone system was unacceptable, said the top Democrat on the Senate's commerce committee said on Thursday.
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Canadian mining company employees worked amid gunfire, Mexican cartel checkpoints, says family member

Vizsla Silver Corp.'s workers laboured in an environment punctured by gunfire, cartel checkpoints and drones, says the brother of a geologist with the Canadian mining company in Mexico, who was among five people found dead after they were kidnapped by a suspected faction of the Sinaloa cartel.
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Trump border czar says controversial Minneapolis immigration operation to end

The immigration crackdown in Minnesota that led to mass detentions, protests and the deaths of two U.S. citizens is nearing an end, U.S. President Donald Trump's border czar said Thursday.
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Syria's leader targeted for assassination often, UN report says, as U.S. hands over military base

Syrian government forces have taken control of a base in the east of the country that was run for years by U.S. troops as part of the war against the Islamic State group, the defence ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
